Project updates

The online questionnaire is now available in Spanish, too. Maria Saavedra Isusi, an experienced and highly esteemed colleague working from German and English into her native Spanish kindly provided this translation and thus considerably extended the potential outreach of this survey. If your main occupation is that of a translator or an interpreter, feel free […]

The survey questionnaire is now available in English, too. The German version has been online and open to respondents for two weeks and many colleagues have already provided their interesting and meaningful insights. I am very curious to see how the English speaking world of freelance transators and interpreters will react to my survey. It […]

On August 8, 2017 I had a first conversation with my supervisor to decide on a topic for my diploma thesis in business management. The direction is clear: I will focus on pricing practices of free-lance translators and interpreters. I will do quantitative research and hand in an English language thesis. For now, the focus […]

In a knowledge society, freelancers play an increasingly important role. To date, research related to freelancers mainly focused on their working conditions, their motives or their relevance in terms of labour market policies. They have virtually been neglected as a distinct group of small businesses (with the notable exception of Kitching and Smallbone, 2012). As […]